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		<title>On Getting Rid of Japanese in Japan</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2013/09/25/kanji-reform-in-japan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2013 19:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kanji is hard. The hieroglyphic written script (just one of three) used in Japanese has a weird history, borrowed and bastardized from the Chinese. And it takes years, even for the Japanese, to learn. For foreigners used to Roman scripts, &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2013/09/25/kanji-reform-in-japan/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisjapaneselife.org&#038;blog=14259673&#038;post=1798&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Getting by in Japan (Without Speaking Japanese)</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2013/07/17/totally-basic-japanese/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2013 13:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Weird things happen when you half-ass a language in its native culture. I&#8217;m a bit embarrassed at my Japanese ability after living here for three years. I took a year of Japanese in college and two years of lessons here &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2013/07/17/totally-basic-japanese/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisjapaneselife.org&#038;blog=14259673&#038;post=1706&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Having No Comment in Japan</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2013/03/06/mokusatsu-hiroshima-japan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 13:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In July of 1945 the United States prepared to test the first atomic bomb in a dusty corner of New Mexico. Amongst the small cadre of scientists who were aware of the Trinity Project – even the US Vice President &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2013/03/06/mokusatsu-hiroshima-japan/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisjapaneselife.org&#038;blog=14259673&#038;post=1528&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Autumn in Japan</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2012/09/12/autumn-haiku/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 14:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here, Autumn starts in August, rather than the September Equinox. It’s September now, but the temperatures still hover in the 80s, thunderstorms still threaten my daily sushi pickup, and cicadas still squawk through the trees like tortured squirrels. What do &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2012/09/12/autumn-haiku/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisjapaneselife.org&#038;blog=14259673&#038;post=1399&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Writing About Rain in Japan</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2012/06/20/rainy-season-haiku/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2012 14:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s tsuyu, rainy season, a designation determined by a group of experts without regard to actual rainfall. It rained once on the day after they had declared the end of rainy season, and that rain was designated non-rainy season rain. &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2012/06/20/rainy-season-haiku/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisjapaneselife.org&#038;blog=14259673&#038;post=1310&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Sneezing in Japan</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2012/02/15/sneezing-in-japan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Japan, no one can hear you sneeze. OK, they can hear you, they just don&#8217;t erupt into spontaneous prayer. I&#8217;d ask, “What do you say in Japanese when people sneeze?” Occasionally I&#8217;d hear “odaiji ni” as an option. So &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2012/02/15/sneezing-in-japan/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisjapaneselife.org&#038;blog=14259673&#038;post=1182&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>15 English Words You Will Only Hear in Japan</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2012/02/13/wasei-eigo-15-words-japanese/</link>
		<comments>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2012/02/13/wasei-eigo-15-words-japanese/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[English is something of an international language, and so it tends to make out with a lot of native tongues. In Japan, I hear a lot of English phrases scattered into otherwise Japanese conversations. Most of them, however, make no &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2012/02/13/wasei-eigo-15-words-japanese/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisjapaneselife.org&#038;blog=14259673&#038;post=1163&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Awkwardly Consoling Japanese Schoolgirls</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2011/11/09/japan-schoolgirls-notporn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are only so many things I know how to say in Japanese. I&#8217;ve learned that none of them can stop a 15-year-old Japanese girl from crying. There’s “daijobu,” and “daijobu desu ka?” &#8211; “It’s alright,” and, “are you alright?” &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2011/11/09/japan-schoolgirls-notporn/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisjapaneselife.org&#038;blog=14259673&#038;post=1031&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Japanese Probability</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2011/10/12/probably-tabun-japan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I think the students might be busy after school, so perhaps they won’t come to our meeting. I’m not sure. But if that’s the case, we’ll have to cancel the meeting for today.” In English, this sentence means nobody really &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2011/10/12/probably-tabun-japan/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisjapaneselife.org&#038;blog=14259673&#038;post=921&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Lenin’s Feet and the Taxi-Driving Buddha</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2011/10/05/lenins-feet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you visit Kyoto, you may stumble into a small home next door to a shrine and, as you&#8217;re looking for the shrine entrance, a woman may ask you for 500 yen and assure you that there is English being &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2011/10/05/lenins-feet/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisjapaneselife.org&#038;blog=14259673&#038;post=901&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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